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  2. Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present) - Wikipedia

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    The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a political party in the United Kingdom, established in 1990.The current party traces its origin to the Social Democratic Party, which was formed in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs) and former Cabinet members Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the Gang of Four.

  3. Social Democrats, USA - Wikipedia

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    SDUSA, while social democratic, is also still "committed to the vibrant democratic socialist movement". [ 3 ] SDUSA's politics were criticized by former SPA chairman Michael Harrington , who in 1972 announced that he favored an immediate pull-out of American forces from Vietnam and coined the term "neoconservative".

  4. Social Democratic Party (UK) - Wikipedia

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    The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a centrist to centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [4] The party supported a mixed economy (favouring a system inspired by the German social market economy), electoral reform, European integration and a decentralised state while rejecting the possibility of trade unions being overly influential within industrial relations. [5]

  5. Social Democratic Party of Germany - Wikipedia

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    In the 1912 federal election, the SPD won 34.8 percent of votes and became the largest party in the Reichstag, but was still excluded from government. After the start of the First World War in 1914, the party split between a pro-war mainstream and the anti-war Independent Social Democratic Party , some members of which later formed the ...

  6. SDP–Liberal Alliance - Wikipedia

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    The SDP–Liberal Alliance was a centrist [4] [5] [6] and social liberal [1] [2] political and electoral alliance in the United Kingdom.. Formed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party, the SDP–Liberal Alliance was established in 1981, contesting the 1982 United Kingdom local elections, 1983 United Kingdom local elections, 1983 general election, 1984 United Kingdom local ...

  7. Liberal Party (UK) - Wikipedia

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    In the election's aftermath Steel proposed a merger of the two parties. Most SDP members voted in favour of the merger, but SDP leader David Owen objected and continued to lead a "rump" SDP. In March 1988, the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party merged to create the Social and Liberal Democrats, renamed the Liberal Democrats in October ...

  8. Gang of Four (SDP) - Wikipedia

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    SDP logo The gang of four, clockwise; Shirley Williams , Roy Jenkins , Bill Rodgers , David Owen In UK politics, the Gang of Four was a breakaway group of four Labour politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981, [ 1 ] including two sitting Labour MPs and a former deputy leader of the party.

  9. Social Democratic and Labour Party - Wikipedia

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    Despite opposing academic selection, the party does not advocate the abolition of grammar schools. [101] The party supports the abolition of tuition fees. It wants to make a modern language up to GCSE and the teaching of maths up to the age of 18 compulsory. The party believes that the Magee campus in Derry should be expanded to 10,000 student ...